Baseball game



Patented Mar. 20, i923.

STATES HAROLD LORENZO POST, OF APPLETON, WISCONSIN.

BASEBALL GAME.

Application filed June 29, 1920. Serial No. 392,670.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that l, HAROLD L. Pos'r, a citizen of the United Eitates, and resident of Appleton, in the county 01 Outagamie and :5 State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Baseball blames; and I do hereby declare that the it'ollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in game apparatuses and pertains particularly to a game in the nature of a baseball game which can be played on a game board.

.5 The principal. object of this invention is to provide a simply constructed game apparatus having parts which may be manipulated so that a game closely resembling an ordinary baseball game may be played within the limits of a comparatively small game board.

An additional object is to provide a game apparatus in which a game resembling a baseball game may be played by two persons using two sets of game pieces, one set oi which is adapted to travel about the. paths connecting the several playing stations and the other to be projected by a striking member carried by the game board.

/Vith these general objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed, and shown in the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 represents a plan view of a game apparatus constructed in accordance with the invention and,

Figure 2 is a t *ansverse section taken sub stantially on the plane of the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, the reference character 1 denotes a game board having a substantially rectangular bottom 2 having an imperiorate plane surface of suitable size and having rails 8 secured to its edge portions. 0n the upper surface of the bottom 2 is printed or otherwise formed a plurality of disc shaped play- JM ing stations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 which may be designated respectively as start, first base, second base, third base, home plate and pitcher,

These playing stations are arranged to a certain extent to simulate the representation of a. baseball diamond, but the station 4: is

spaced from the station 8. A path 10 is marked upon the surface of the bottom 2 and extends between and substantially connects the several playing stations, the same running from station 4 to station 9 and intersecting stations 5, 6, 7 and 8 in the order named The bottom of the game board is provided with a pair of spacedpivot apertures 11 and 11 which are disposed on each side offstation 8 and in alinement with a plane passing diametrically through the centers of stations 4 and 8. Either of these apertures 11 and 11 is adapted to pivotably receive a fulcrum stud 12 carried by one end of (i-striker arm 13. l/Vhen in use this arm 13 rests upon the bottom of the game board and the player may swing the same, across stationS as indicated by the full and broken lines in Fig ure 1. A plurality of counter game pieces 14 are used in connection with the other parts of the apparatus and are adapted to be moved by the player around the path 10 from the station start to the station home plate. A single playing game piece 15 is also used in connection with the game pieces 14 and is designed to be moved by one of the players from the station pitcher to the station home plate, at which point it is adapted to be struck by the arm 13 and projected toward the opposite end of the game board. When not in use the game pieces 14 may be located within a suitable box or the like 16 disposed at one corner of the game board. The adjacent corner of the board is provided with a suitable scoring device 17 by which a record of the number of outs and runs may be kept. Inasmuch as each player is entitled to three outs during each inningof the game, the

scoring device is provided with three discs 18 which may be successively covered by the game pieces 14 as an out occurs. As runs are scored game pieces may be placed in the other portion of the scoring device as will be obvious by an examination oi Figure 1 of the drawing.

Two persons may operate my improved game apparatus and play a game thereon, and it is desirable to simulate the conditions of an actual ball game as closely as possible. Consequently the principal and fundamental rules of a baseball game, in so far as they are applicable to the present game, are used. F or instance, the player whose team is at bat places one of the game pieces 1 1 on the station a, While the other player whose team has the field places the single playing game piece on the station 9.

After which disposal of the game pieces, the p v last mentioned player projects the game piece 15 toward the home plate station by snapping his finger against the same, it being the duty of the other player to strike this game piece, if possible, by swinging the arm 13 about its pivot stud, which stud may be located in either one of the apertures 11 or 11. After the player succeeds in striking the game piece 15 and in propelling the same across the game board, it is the object of the game for this player to move his game piece 14 from the station 4: to the station 5, or first base, before the other player retrieves the game piece 15 and places the same on station 5. In other words, if the game piece 14 arrives at station 5 before the game piece 15, the man which it represents is safe, whereas if the game piece 15 is placed on station 5 before the other game piece the man which the latter represents is out, and this game piece is then removed and placed on one of the discs 18.

Assuming that the other game piece It has safely arrived at station first base, a second game piece is placed on station fstart, whereupon the game piece 15 is again propelled toward station home plate and the player operating the arm 13 endeavorsto strike the same as before. And, upon the game piece 15 being again projected by the striker arm, it is necessary for the player manipulating the latter to move both of the game pieces 14 on the stations L and 5 to the stations 5 and 6 respectively. This same procedure is followed out until the team of the player manipulating the striker arm hasthr'ee outs." The players then re verse their positions as in the case of the usual baseball game. By being able to place the pivot of a striker arm 13 on either side of station 8, the. actions of right or left handed batter may be simulated.

I claim:

In a game apparatus, a game board having an imperforate plane surface with appropriately designated stations marked thereon in the relative positions of first base, second base, third base, home plate and pitcher of a baseball diamond, a pathway marked on said surface and connecting the stations in the order named, striker arm pivoted to swing across home plate, a starting station near one side of the board out of the way of the striking arm, a pathway connecting the starting station to first base, a disk adapted to be put in play by projection from the pitcher station against the pivoted striker arm, and a plurality of other disks of different appearance adapted to be manually moved and guided from the starting station along said pathways to the successiie stations of the diamond after the manner of a base ball runner.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Appleton, in the county of Outagamie and State of Visconsin.

' HAROLD LORENZO POST. 

